Mary Anne Mohanraj
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Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of Bodies in Motion (HarperCollins), The Stars Change (Circlet Press) and twelve other titles. Bodies in Motion was a finalist for the Asian American Book Awards, a USA Today Notable Book, and has been translated into six languages. Mohanraj founded the Hugo-nominated science fiction magazine, Strange Horizons, and founded Jaggery, a South Asian literary journal (jaggerylit.com). She received a Breaking Barriers Award from the Chicago Foundation for Women for her work in Asian American arts organizing, won an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Prose, and was Guest of Honor at WisCon. She serves as Director of two literary organizations, DesiLit (www.desilit.org) and The Speculative Literature Foundation (www.speclit.org). Mohanraj is Clinical Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and lives in a creaky old Victorian in Oak Park, just outside Chicago, with her partner, their two small children, and a sweet dog. Recent publications include stories for George R.R. Martin's Wild Cards series, stories at Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and Lightspeed, and an essay in Roxane Gay’s Unruly Bodies. 2017-2018 titles include Survivor (a SF/F anthology), Perennial, and Invisible 3 (co-edited with Jim C. Hines). http://www.maryannemohanraj.com
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Lady Distressed
Apr 1, 2019 · 2,906 words (11 minutes) · 16 views
Why in the world had she agreed to accompany Matthew to this insane asylum, where these refugees from the real world pranced and danced and pretended they had been born centuries earlier?
Goddess Blessing
Apr 1, 2019 · 1,287 words (5 minutes) · 17 views
It had been over 20 years since she’d last seen Raji, and her letters had all gone unanswered. Until today.
The Girl Behind the Fantasy
Feb 28, 2019 · 1,606 words (6 minutes) · 45 views
'I am a fantasy, and I can be whatever your heart desires ...'
The Survey
Feb 21, 2019 · 1,349 words (5 minutes) · 36 views
Five bucks for answering the question; fifty for the long form ...
Esthely Blue
Feb 20, 2019 · 4,444 words (17 minutes) · 39 views
Body parts keep disappearing at the most inopportune times ... my own, that is!